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In this chapter, we introduce the concept of spectrography. Building on the previous chapters on the nature of light and astronomical imaging we discuss the spectrograph and show through a simple practical how to take, reduce and interpret our first astronomical spectrum
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Gallaway, M. (2016). Spectrography. In: An Introduction to Observational Astrophysics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23377-2_13
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